Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-02

Offices OF the government, especially in tn
foreign service, the most distinguished
leaders of the rebel service. More thai
q Majority of ell the leading officers VIII,
now represent US in the diplomatic ant
consular service abroad are Confederate
! soldiers or civilians. hold in my han(
a list of ninetY-one persons now minis
tiers, consuls, secretaries of legation, anC
the like, in most of the chief countries o
the world, every one of whom gained hi.
| distinction of greater or lesser degree bI
! service in the Confederate army or TIT
Confederate cause. Many Of those ap
| pointed ii the north were il
! sympathy with the rebellion. Thi.
| is so marked that every nation Il
which these gentlemen are accredited
may fairly conclude that il was the rebel
cause that triumphed and not tue Union
cause. Nearly all these are OF the eX-
IRENE school of southern politics. One
of them refused to ask TO have his disabIl
tiles removed. Another, on public holi
day when the flag of our country was
floating over the city of Washington
turned 10 it and said: Glow l hate that
fag;h and yet when checked, added
"But | would fight for il now" The
body Of these men are mere fitted TO
represent the Confederate states than the
Union people. l have no wish to discrim-
mate against those who in good faith &C
quiesced in the results of the war, but do
think it is shame that within twenty-five
years after the war is over, the Demo-
cratic party in power should emphasize
TO sll the world their sympathy with the
Confederate cause.
The President has not been free from
fault in this respect. The bias of his
mind IS shown in recent letter to the
committee who invited him to attend the
unwilling Of the monument erected to the
memory of John c.. Calhoun. He says he
believes "it would be well if al be (Cal-
houn) thought and all he believed and
taught, and ell his aspirations were
better known and understood" Whist
would Andrew Jackson have said to such
a sentiment as this if uttered in his pres
ence in the name of the Democratic
party?
And this, fellow citizens, brings me to
the vitsl controlling difference between
the two great parties now as during the
war. From the beginning Of the govern
ment one theory tended to belittle, de-
grade and Lessen the authority Of the
national Union. 1t favored srict con-
structiCn Of the constitution; il construed
it like sn Indictment or g penal bond,
every doubt WIS 10 be resolved against it.
To them it was a contract which any
state might throw off at its pleasure.
They called this the right of secession.
They called this government cOnted
erscy. The Democratic party n later
I e
this theory. When they undertook in
1861 10 put their theories in practice,
they expressly called their government 3
confederate government, and by their
constitution they made slavery and the
right of secession their corner stOnes,
with Jefferson Davis as their chief.
The opposite theory was that the gov
ernmgnt formed by our fathers was
national government, that the CJn5titu-
ton was an indissoluble bond OF union,
defining the powers Of The government, !
10 be construed literally, 80 as 10 carry
alto effect the purposes Of its trainers;
that this was sn ordnance, not IF tn
states, but of the people, to promote d /
more perfect Union; 10 preserve the
blessings of liberty for themselves and !
heir posteIity. They were UIiauists; |
hey believed IL the growth and strength |
Ind power Of The republic.
The future open. fore us an infinite !
,ariety Of questio which will turn on |
he extent Of national author ty. The rev. |
.nues must be reduced. This the Re-
publican party did many times since the |
var, and carefully selected fer repeal or
eduction, taxes on home proc uction and |
juties on articles that did Lot compete |
With home industry.
a protection duty has been llced on
ugar for the benefit of the sugs planters
II Louisiana, but we now prop as one
means Of reducing surplus = niue, to
argely reduce this tax, and as protec-
ion to sugar gro raTs some pr pose to
Jay out of the duties on sugar p bounty
or the home production of all kinds of
ugar from cane, or beets or sorghum.
This policy of protection has been eX-
ended to the products of the iarm, the
ield of the mines, as well as the fabrics
# the mechanic and the manufacturer.
n this way the legying Of taxes is made
he means of national growth and devel-
pment, nearly treDling IN twenty years
ur domestic manufactures, sud at the
anne time by competition reducing the
rices.
But by the Confederate construction of
he constitution all this is unGonstitu-
iOnal. By their theory we m impose
urdens but can not confer ben fits.
And now, fellow citizens, tn" immedi-
tie result of Democratic or Confederate
scendancy is to be struggle to break
own our industrial system. IleY now
ropose to reduce the duties o. articles
hat we can and do now pro5u ce, and
nus bring our skilled artisans ldto COM
etition with foreign labor that will iney-
.ably reduce the price of dome tic labor.
he farmer with wool duty free must
ither kill his sheep or reduce the price
t his wool, and so with every article of
omestic production. But even on this
olicy they can not agree. With eXClu-
i've power over revenue bills they can
gree upon no proposition for the reduc-
on of taxes, while surplus revenue
rRwn from the Lie blood of the people
CCumulsres in the Treasury. But in the
nd the Confederate idea Will, as usual,
revail in that party.
Randall will resist, but he will learn
Re same lesson SO many Democrats be-
IRE him have learned. The Confederate
0nstitutiou declared in so many words
lat no duties or taxes on imPortations
ON foreign nations shall DE ls id to pro-
tote or foster any branch of industry |